Fr Serafino will be leading a Lenten day of prayer, including Adoration of our Eucharistic Love with two talks on the mortal combat that Catholics must undergo against the Devil, the flesh, the self and the world. Pray for the FFI who, along with those four powerful enemies, have been on the receiving end of some rough treatment from within the Church Herself.

If you are in the region do go. If you are not in the region, consider a trip to Brighton.

Sounds great. If there are going to be any Youtube vids or write-ups on the event which you become aware of, then please do furnish us with a link. I'm sure many outside of Sin City would be interested in getting a chance to enjoy these talks too!

A stranger pontificate in history shall likely never be found. More bloody pontificates? More violent pontificates? More corrupt pontificates? More edifying and glorious pontificates? Yes to all these, but the award for strangest pontificate shall surely go to Francis.

Everything about this papacy has been strange, confusing and unsettling, disturbing and worrying. I liked that description from the bishops of Kazakhstan - 'alien'.Yes, much of this pontificate has been foreign and 'alien' to Catholic sensibility, to Catholic feeling and to Catholic tradition. Jorge Mario Bergoglio sidled into the Seat of Peter with astonishing confidence and he lost no time in laying out the scope of his radical agenda still unfolding in real time. Clearly nothing in the same room as him is to be marked safe.

All along, however, tradition - at least some Catholic tradition - has been an uneasy ally of the man from the ends of the earth. He needs it. He lives off it. Without it, he dies…